Contrasting PSI Software (OTCMKTS:PSSWF) & Intellicheck (NYSE:IDN)

Intellicheck (NYSE:IDN) and PSI Software (OTCMKTS:PSSWF) are both industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations and profitability.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings for Intellicheck and PSI Software, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Intellicheck	0	0	1	0	3.00
PSI Software	0	0	0	0	N/A

Intellicheck currently has a consensus target price of $5.00, suggesting a potential upside of 148.76%. Given Intellicheck’s higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Intellicheck is more favorable than PSI Software.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Intellicheck and PSI Software’s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Intellicheck	$15.97 million	2.43	-$3.85 million	($0.18)	-11.17
PSI Software	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

PSI Software has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Intellicheck.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

36.2% of Intellicheck shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.6% of Intellicheck shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares Intellicheck and PSI Software’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Intellicheck	-19.27%	-18.77%	-14.73%
PSI Software	N/A	N/A	N/A

Summary

Intellicheck beats PSI Software on 5 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Intellicheck

Intellicheck, Inc., a technology company, develops, integrates, and markets threat identification and identity authentication solutions for bank and retail fraud prevention, law enforcement threat identification, and mobile and handheld access control and security systems primarily in the United States. It provides identity systems products, including commercial identification products, such as Intellicheck Platform, an identity solution that checks whether an ID is valid, matches the ID to the person presenting it, and provides a risk score to determine the risk of doing business with that person; IDN-Portal, an Intellicheck-branded identity validation application that provides the ability to scan an ID using a mobile phone; IDN-Portal+ that offers document validation, retail POS integration, additional data for analytics and analysis, and online validation, and other features; IDN-Direct that provides access to additional data and the ability to use the platform's Risk Score capability to help with decision-making; and Intellicheck mobile app, which provides the ability to login and scan an ID. The company also offers State Aware Software solution, which provides or restricts information that is electronically scanned from an ID based on the electronic reading laws according to the state in which the ID is scanned; data collection devices that enable its software applications to be used on a variety of commercially available credit card terminals, PDAs, tablets, laptops, desktops, mobile phones, and point-of-sale terminals; and instant credit application kiosk software applications. It serves government, military, and commercial markets. The company was formerly known as Intellicheck Mobilisa, Inc. and changed its name to Intellicheck, Inc. in May 2017. Intellicheck, Inc. was incorporated in 1994 and is headquartered in Melville, New York.

About PSI Software

PSI Software SE develops and sells software systems and products for the energy supply, production, infrastructure, software technology, internet applications, and business consultancy sectors worldwide. The company operates through two segments, Energy Management and Production Management. The Energy Management segment provides intelligent solutions for power grids and sector coupling, gas grids and pipelines, trading and sales of energy solutions, public transportation, road traffic, airport logistics. It develops control systems for electrical grids, cross-sector control systems, and gas and pipeline management systems; and products for energy trading, energy distribution, smart grids, power plant optimization, public transport system, and gas industry planning. The Production Management segment offers software products and solutions for planning and controlling production processes in metals production, logistics, mechanical engineering, and automotive manufacturing. The company also offers a range of data processing services; sells electronic equipment; and operates data processing systems. PSI Software SE was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.